The movie has been universally panned by critics as a poor adaptation of the original novel and a feature-length advertisement for Amazon.

Amazon's War of the Worlds Remake Starring Ice Cube Staring at a Computer Screen Gets Rare 0% Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score A mazon’s recently released War of the Worlds remake has a rare 0% Rotten Tomatoes critics score — and the audience score isn’t far behind.